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Follow Birkebeinerrittet live on raceday

On Saturday Aug. 30th we will present Birkebeinerrittet live on internet for everybody to view. Birkebeinerrittet (Norway) is the biggest MTB-event in the world. On race day you can on the internet, follow your racer moving through the course. You see the course and the racer on a Googel Map. You get expected finish time plus expected time for next split passing.

Great fun for friends and family to view!

The service is based on split times, course GPS track and the individual performance of each racer.

You find the link here.

Are you participating? Tell your friends and family!

Launch of Mobile Locater

After months with testing Sportsim launches the first beta version of the Mobile Locater. The idea behind the Mobile Locater is to transform your cell phone into an on-line tracking device.  Friends and family can then follow your map projected movements on a web page. More information will follow...

2nd successful test of live Google Maps service

On the XC-skiing race Birkebeinerrennet 2008 March 15th with about 10.000 finishers Sportsim conducted a successful live test during the race.  Visitors to the live test site could follow racers during their performance.  The new service has earlier been developed to play with the Google Earth client, but was now tied in with Google Maps.  Google Maps makes the service more usable as visitors only use their browser.

With this new service people can take out the guess about how racers are performing and where they are located in the course.  This is something friends and family will appreciate.

Test of Mobile Locater in New York

Sportsim is present in a very visual way at The ING New York City Marathon Nov. 4, 2007.
This time we have an open solution test and a teaser of an upcoming service where you can watch Erik from Sportsim all the way from start to finish.
The solution is LIVE on Google Maps, where positions are submitted from a regular GPS enabled mobile phone located in Erik's pocket.

For the 5th time, Sportsim supports the Course Simulation where racers can re-live and compare their endeavors as moving dots on map. Sportsim is honored to be part of this years race and very pleased that our services appear popular among the participants.

New simulation solution at record race in Sweden

Sportsim delivered a complete course simulation solution with both front (simulation software) and back-end (servers) solution in cooperation with a leading news paper in Sweden, GT Expressen.

The participation in this years edition of Göteborgsvarvet was a record high with 31,160 runners.  After the race could racers re-cap their endeavors with the course simulation delivered from Sportsim through the GT Expressen web site. This is a popular event and the simulation received high traffic peeks.  The solution delivered through the web site was part of a free content supported by the GT Expressen and income from banner ads.
Sportsim believes this solution could also be of interest to other content providers in cooperation with a local event.